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Actress Chloe Moretz posted an image of a new poster for Overture/Hammer Films' Let Me In on Twitter today -- and we have a peek of the new image (it's large and in charge in the gallery below). Though the remake feels completely unnecessary to me, so far a pretty impressive trailer and the backing of Matt Reeves is massaging the fears many have about the film.

Let Me In follows the Swedish film's storyline -- a young boy develops a friendship with a vampire, Abby (Moretz), in a small town (trading a Stockholm suburb for New Mexico).

The new art is extra heavy on the red stuff -- as it should be -- so, take a peek and let us know if you're tearing down your wall like Gorby.



[via /Film]

If I hadn't recalled giving my mailing address to one of the representatives for Overture/Hammer Films' Let Me In months ago, the above piece of mail yesterday probably would have been taken as a sign that I was supposed to go out and start killing demons disguised as people. How else is a bloody funnel inside an evidence bag inside a small box with a return address to P.O. Box 666 supposed to be taken? It's only logical.

Unless of course you're familiar with Let the Right One In and know that the funnel is a very integral tool used to keep your vampire idol sated. Kind of a cool beginning to their Let Me In viral campaign, no?

Their campaign isn't confined to sending bloggers ominous pieces of police evidence, either. Over at HelpMe.net you can now find a new set of Morse Code scratchings to decipher and a text entry box in which to enter your translation. If you're curious to see what it turns up, it's pretty easy to translate, but if you don't feel like cross matching symbols from Wikipedia, I've gone ahead and done the nerdy bit below.

With reports of a buyout in their future, Overture Films has put a hold on several projects including the latest Steve Niles' (30 Days of Night) property for the big screen, Freaks of the Heartland. The film was about to begin casting under the lead of director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls) but we'll have to wait out a "90-day hold" to find out the future of Overture's titles, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Freaks of the Heartland is a six-part story published in 2004 by Dark Horse Comics and illustrated by Greg Ruth. The story revolves around Trevor Owen, who resides in the small town of Gristlewood Valley. He tries to protect his "monster" of a younger brother and other local children who are not quite what they seem from the avenging townsfolk.

Creepy mountain people are always a plus in my book so let's hope that Overture can pull things together and make it happen. I wasn't a huge fan of the other Niles' adaptation, 30 Days of Night, even though I adore the comic (all bow to the great Ben Templesmith!). This is one story I have yet to check out. Do you recommend it?

It sounds like Overture's upcoming release schedule remains in tact, which includes Breck Eisner's remake of Romero's The Crazies and Let Me In, a remake of the Swedish vampire tale, Let the Right One In. Perhaps those are the breakout hits Overture needs to stay in the running.

I'm always willing to give a remake the benefit of the doubt, even if it's a remake of an already fine film. That said, if you haven't already seen George A. Romero's 1973 film and you'd like to go into Breck Eisner's remake of The Crazies with as blank a slate as possible, you'd do well to not watch this trailer for the upcoming title from Overture Films starring Radha Mitchell (yay, Silent Hill!), Joe Anderson (yay, The Ruins!), Danielle Panabaker (yay, F13 Remake!), and Timothy Olyphant (yay, "Deadwood"!).

Don't get me wrong, Eisner's take on Romero's story of paranoia and loss of control looks to have nailed the eeriness that spreads across a small town in the Mid-West, but the trailer is a bit on the showy side, I think. I'm all for offering a glimpse of a money-shot or two, but even a lazy eye could piece together the majority of the film from these 2 minutes and 29 seconds.

But for those of us who have seen Romero's The Crazies, or for those who just don't care about out-of-context spoilers, click over to Apple for HD varieties or scroll on down for a glossy embed and then let us know what you think of the Hollywood upscale Eisner and The Machinist screenwriter Scott Kosar have given the material.

Moviefone is hosting a new, exclusive clip (embedded conveniently below) that takes a peek inside the deep space paranoia of Overture Film's upcoming sci-fi/horror chimera, Pandorum. Don't worry, there's nothing spoilery found within, just a pusher's taste of the fears to be found aboard an inexplicably abandoned spaceship.

Personally, I don't know why Dennis Quaid finds Cam Gigandet's character to be so untrustworthy. He's only laying down the not-at-all maddening symptoms of the titular space...disease. Then again, maybe Quaid has already seen whatever weirdness is going on in that poster to the right. If that's the case, I sure as hell wouldn't trust anyone, either.